“So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.”

“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

“Paying attention to the CPI and the others is like leaving your house on a rainy day without carrying an umbrella because a government weather report told you it was sunny.”

“Not long ago your conciousness
was wandering alone.
Swept by karma,
it took its present birth.
Soon, like a hair pulled out of butter,
Leaving everything behind,
you’ll go on alone.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“I've lost myself in my work many times. If you love what you do, this can be a Zen thing, where past and future recede to a vanishing point and leave nothing but the perfect vexing, challenging, beguiling now.”

“You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past”

“—leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”